Oxfam: $1.9B in Ebola Aid Not Delivered by Donors
Source: Associated Press
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast Jan 31, 2016, 8:17 AM ET
International donors have failed to deliver $1.9 billion in promised funds to help West African countries recover from the Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people and decimated already weak health care systems, the U.K.-based charity Oxfam said Sunday.
The remaining $3.9 billion pledged has been difficult to track because of "scant information" and a lack of transparency, the group said.
"We're finding it hard to understand which donors have given what money, to whom and for what purpose," said Aboubacry Tall, Oxfam's regional director for West Africa.
Oxfam called on donors and the governments of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea the three hardest-hit countries to provide detailed information on how aid is being provided.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/oxfam-19b-ebola-aid-delivered-donors-36624940
Festivito
(13,452 posts)Taking from the poorest most hurt people on earth.
LiberalArkie
(15,715 posts)payrolls and travel expenses. Some have administrative costs as high as 80%. Then they purchase the items they are donating from themselves at high costs, so not much ever ends up with the needy.
Festivito
(13,452 posts)Tanuki
(14,918 posts)They have a long history of transparency in regard to their finances and some of their advocacy issues will probably surprise you. I hate to see reflexive trashing of people who are actually doing good work, often in unimaginably difficult circumstances.
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